challenge = VISUALS

I am planning to illustrate my book but I am not very strong in illustration. I would like to develop a certain style for this book. My other goal is also to make my illustrations very simple but effective.
Here are some inspiration pieces. I

llustrations by E. Andreeva.


Illustrations found on the Internet.

new solution = STRUCTURE

INITIAL THOUGHTS
I have changed my mind regarding the initial structure, where my book had few pages that hold smaller planets-books. I came up with a better solution that also goes together with my concept.

DESCRIPTION
There will be only one spread that will hold all the planets-books. It will show our planet and all the little planets (King, Tippler, Lamplighter, Mathematician, Show-off, Geographer) will be part of Earth. Rhetorically, they are part of Earth too. Now I want to make this point by placing them on the map as opposed to initial approach, where all the planets where hanging in space. As for a perfect Little Planet, it will be placed separately - above Earth. It will symbolize that Little Planet is not part of Earth but it is out there.

Here is the visual explanation of what I mean:

Solution = STRUCTURE

Here is the initial structure solution for the book. I am not sure though if it will work the way I have planned to.

URGENT

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challenge = STRUCTURE

INITIAL THOUGHTS
Since this project is very open and for me, quiet experimental, I've decided to start off with structure and move into context later. Structure of this book will dictate how the text will be divided. There are twenty seven chapters in this book originally. However, I am writing my own context based on the book ideas - therefore, the list below is just the overall starting point - a base for further context.

• Chapter 1 -we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grown-ups.
  
• Chapter 2 -the narrator crashes in the desert and makes the acquaintance of the little prince.
  
• Chapter 3 -the narrator learns more about from where the little prince came.
  
• Chapter 4 -the narrator speculates as to which asteroid from which the little prince came.
  
• Chapter 5 -we are warned as to the dangers of the baobabs.
  
• Chapter 6 -the little prince and the narrator talk about sunsets.
  
• Chapter 7 -the narrator learns about the secret of the little prince's life.
  
• Chapter 8 -the rose arrives at the little prince's planet.
  
• Chapter 9 -the little prince leaves his planet.
  
• Chapter 10 -the little prince visits the king.
  
• Chapter 11 -the little prince visits the conceited man.
  
• Chapter 12 -the little prince visits the tippler.
  
• Chapter 13 -the little prince visits the businessman.
  
• Chapter 14 -the little prince visits the lamplighter.
  
• Chapter 15 -the little prince visits the geographer.
  
• Chapter 16 -the narrator discusses the Earth's lamplighters.
  
• Chapter 17 -the little prince makes the acquaintance of the snake.
  
• Chapter 18 -the little prince goes looking for men and meets a flower.
  
• Chapter 19 -the little prince climbs a mountain range.
  
• Chapter 20 -the little prince discovers a garden of roses.
  
• Chapter 21 -the little prince befriends the fox.
  
• Chapter 22 -the little prince encounters a railway switchman.
  
• Chapter 23 -the little prince encounters a merchant.
  
• Chapter 24 -the narrator and the little prince, thirsty, hunt for a well in the desert.
  
• Chapter 25 -finding a well, the narrator and the little prince discuss his return to his planet.
  
• Chapter 26 -the little prince converses with the snake; the little prince consoles the narrator; the little prince returns to his planet.
  
• Chapter 27 -the narrator's afterthoughts.

(context adopted from http://home.pacific.net.hk/~rebylee/text/prince/contents.html)

REVISED CHAPTERS
There are too many things to discuss from this book, but I mainly would like to focus of about 8 chapters.

General ideas about the representation of:

• Chapter 1 - Earth
  
• Chapter 2 - Little Prince planet

The discussion of different personalities:

• Chapter 3 - King
  
• Chapter 4- Conceited man
  
• Chapter 5 -Tippler
  
• Chapter 6 -Businessman
  
• Chapter 7-Lamplighter
  
• Chapter 8 -Geographer

INITIAL DRAFTS
Here are the initial sketches for the structure.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
Here are the thoughts on how structure must work.

HIGHLIGHTS
The main challenge now is to make this structure fit together nicely from functional and conceptual point of view.

challenge = IDEA

The greatest challenge of it all was to arrive with the book. I've started off with Gabriel Garcia de Marquez and I moved to Russian literature, i.e. Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" and from there to Italian "The Castle of Crossed Destinies" by Italo Calvino.

However, I knew for sure that I wanted to have illustrations in my book. Writing my own, was a little scary thing for me since I am not that strong in English writing.Writing book in another language was an option too, but I want this book to be relevant to my audience, which is at this moment is my book design class and Reg.

So, I've started off with brainstorming, where I was trying to connect certain things together and figure out what text will be the best for the audience and me.

Based on simple brainstorming and further research, I have finally arrived to a conclusion that I wanted the book to be:

1. Well-known
2. Fiction
3. Unusual, unique
4. Open to interpretation

At the end I arrived to a conclusion that book "Little Prince" fits all of my criteria very well. It is well-known; it is fiction; it is unusual and unique in its ideas and style; and it is very open to different interpretations.